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Buxton, author of the Manchester Botanical Guide ; indeed, he was 

 the possessor of the original manuscript of this work, which may 

 be said to have a considerable local value. He was also largely and 

 favourably known as a conchologist, having discovered two species 

 of land molluscs as natives of Great Britain ; and, later in life, 

 evinced considerable interest in Egyptology. But what he will be 

 best remembered by, in the years to come, in Manchester, was his 

 long connection with the Society known as the "Ancoats Brother- 

 hood," and likewise the Art Museum, situate at Ancoats Hall. He 

 strove by all means in his power to interest and imbue the many 

 toilers in the heart of a bustling city with the delights of nature, 

 and achieved great and deserved success. It was, indeed, at the 

 Whitsuntide outing of the Brotherhood this present year that he, 

 their chosen leader, escorted a party of over seventy in number to 

 Patterdale, with a view to the ascent of Helvellyn. On Whit- 

 Thursday he started with them, in the best of health and spirits to 

 all appearance, but when a little more than half-way up, at a height 

 of about 1800 ft., illness suddenly supervened from failure of the 

 heart's action, and he expired almost immediately. The funeral 

 took place at Patterdale Church on the following Saturday, June 1st, 

 and was attended by very many of those to whom he had endeared 

 himself by the bright example of a blameless and unselfish life. — 

 J. C. M. 



We have received a reprint of a paper entitled " Ueber den 

 Einfluss des Kerns auf das Wachsthum der Zelle," by J. J. 

 Gerassimow ; an extract from the Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale 

 des Naturalistes de Moscou (Nos. 1 & 2, 1901). Tlie author, who is 

 well known for his researches on artificially produced abnormal 

 cells of the Conjuciatce, gives a full account of his observations in 

 this group on both non-nucleated cells and cells with an excess of 

 nuclear substance. A comparison of the growth of such cells with 

 that of normal cells sheds an interesting light on the important 

 question of the inter-relation of nucleus and protoplasm. The work 

 is provided with two plates and with forty-seven tables, exhibiting 

 clearly the increase in size of the various cells. 



The Rev. John Vaughan publishes in Lominian'a Magazine for 

 September an interesting paper on "Essex and the Early Botanists " 

 — a subject which Mr. Boulger is treating more scientifically in the 

 Essex Naturalist. 



Mr. E. D. Marquand's Flora of Guernsey and the Lesser Channel 

 Islands has just been published ; we hope to notice it later. 



We have received the Report of the Botanical Exchange Club 

 for 1900 and that of the Watson Exchange Club for 1900-1901, 

 from each of which we hope later to give some extracts. 



Mr. G. C. Druce has reprinted in pamphlet form from the 

 Chemist and Drut/gist his "North African Experiences" in the 

 spring of 1900. Many botanical notes are scattered through the 

 pages, to which is prefixed a portrait of the author in his official 

 robes as Mayor of Oxford. 



